Marches to protest laws designed to sideline black voters. Marches that helped to bring about the Voting Rights act just months later. Today, Hispanic and white Texans each make up about 40% of our state's population, equal in number. But under the proposed map, 26 of the 38 congressional districts, 70% of our entire state's congressional delegation will be controlled by white majority districts. (02:58–03:06)
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Asserts that Hispanic and white Texans each constitute about 40% of Texas's population.
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